Still Life: The heart-pounding number one bestseller from the Queen of Crime

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THE AUTHOR: Val McDermid is a popular Scottish author who was born on June 04, 1955 in Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. Things take an even more interesting turn when Auld is known to be the prime suspect in his brother’s death, a high-ranking bureaucrat at the Scottish Office in London. Fuelled by coffee and her insatiable determination to get to the truth, ably assisted by the resourceful if perpetually hungry Daisy, loyal if-a-bit-slow Jason, and her ever-increasing network of helpful contacts, the indomitable DCI will follow the trail of clues to the Highlands, London, Paris, and Ireland.

I’ve now read them all, and while they do work as stand-alones, do recommend starting at least from book 3 (The Skeleton Road) to get the most out of Karen’s story arc. Val McDermid teamed up with illustrator Kathryn Briggs to produce a stunning graphic novel 'Resistance'.I find the Karen Pirie novels really good, a break from the tension and grit of some of the other Val McDermid books. I would like to thank both Net Galley and Grove Atlantic for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. In August 2022 McDermid reported that the estate of Agatha Christie had threatened her publishers with legal action if they referred to McDermid as "the Queen of Crime", stating that the term was copyrighted by the Christie estate. Still trying to find the balance between work and personal life, Pirie struggles to make the pieces come together. Many, many years ago, when I was still a teenager, I read a book by Val McDermid and decided that I absolutely must read another.

Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into forty languages, and have sold over nineteen million copies. And although I foresaw some solutions quite quickly, it did not take away the joy of reading the whole story and discovering other small nuances. the beginning of a new series for Val, featuring journalist Allie Burns, is published on 19th August 2021. After checking for identification, DS Mortimer learns that the victim appears to be a French citizen and begins her inquiries.She also attaches great importance to the archaic and bureaucratic echelons in the force in the sense that everyone below her are plods, and those above are there because of political reasons. McDermid has stated that Jacko Vance, a TV celebrity with a secret lust for torture, murder and under-age girls, who was featured in the Wire in the Blood and two later books, is based on her direct personal experience of interviewing Jimmy Savile.